The Peter McCormack Show

Location: Remotely Date: Monday 18th October Project: Charity: Water Role: Founder & CEO Non-profit organisations have used Bitcoin to accept donations for a long time. One of the most notable examples of this was Wikileaks in 2011. When Paypal, Mastercard and Visa, refused to accept donations due to political pressure, Wikileaks looked to Bitcoin as a permissionless and censorship-resistant alter...

Location: Austin Date: Thursday 7th October Project: From Bars to Bitcoin Role: Author The power of a permissionless network means that people are able to participate from all walks of life by removing the ability for any individual to control your money. From billionaires on Wall Street, to street vendors in El Salvador, it is the fairest money the world has ever known. Bitcoin is for anyone. The...

Location: Nashville Date: Wednesday 29th September Company: Valkyrie Investments Inc Role: Co-Founder Mainstream economists consider a benchmark rate of 1-3% price inflation optimal to promote consumption and economic growth. However, as prices rise, savers lose purchasing power, and asset holders increase their net worth. Over the last 18 months, more than $5 trillion dollars have been created in...

Location: Austin, TX Date: Thursday 7th October Company: Forbes Role: Editor In 1971, Richard Nixon ended Bretton Woods, severing the entire global monetary system from its anchor, gold. Governments around the world have since been able to create new money and increase debt virtually without restriction. Fifty years later, and there's no political will to slow down spending. Instead, new money is...

Location: Austin, TX Date: Friday 8th October Company: Independent, Multicoin Capital Role: Independent, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer In August, a bipartisan group of 69 senators passed a $1 trillion infrastructure package, including around $550 billion projected federal spending on roads, bridges, expanded broadband access and more. While this may seem irrelevant to Bitcoin, this...

Location: Nashville, TN Date: Thursday 30th September Company/project: The Investors Podcast & Great American Mining & TFTC Role: Host & Director of Business Development & Host 2021 has been a year of significant disruption. Trillions in deficit spending are ongoing. Many countries are experiencing the highest consumer inflation seen in decades, while assets and commodities prices have soared at a...

Location: New York Date: Monday 20th September Company: XBTO Humla Ventures Role: Managing Partner For millennia, technology has shaped society, and sometimes in giant leaps. Whether it's the invention of gunpowder or connecting our world with the internet, the result is civilisational transformation. Today, Bitcoin is still a nascent technology, yet it may already be a revolution of value in the...

Location: Remotely Date: Wednesday 29th September Company/project: Independent, Independent, Human Rights Foundation & Baillie Gifford Role: N/A, N/A, Chief Strategy Officer & Investment Manager The narrative around altcoins is constantly changing. However, one thing that remains consistent is that they almost always promise to 'improve upon Bitcoin' in one way or another. More often than not, thi...

Location: New York Date: Sunday 19th September Project: Ethereum Role: Core Developer Ethereum was created to build upon Bitcoin's innovations and offer more functionality, and in 2015, Ethereum developers launched an ICO selling millions of ETH tokens, at the time worth over $18 million. Some of those funds, now worth nearly $1 billion, went to the Ethereum Foundation, which oversees the ongoing...

Location: Remotely Date: Thursday 23rd September Company: Hypersheet Role: Co-Founder Bitcoin's controlled supply schedule and the four-year halving has, historically, led to predictable and cyclical price action with huge bull runs and brutal bear markets. Throughout the 2020/2021 bull market, people have been trying to predict bitcoin's price by comparing it to the 2013 'double pump' and 2017's...

Location: Remotely Date: Thursday 23rd September Company: Validus Power Corp, Swan Bitcoin Role: Bitcoin Strategist, Head of Institutional Investment Over the last week, markets worldwide were hit hard as fears continue to grow over the liquidity of Chinese property behemoth Evergrande. The S&P, Dow Jones and Nasdaq all suffered their worst days in months. Evergrande is China's second-largest and...

SHOW DESCRIPTION Location: Remotely Date: Thursday 23rd September Company: Strike Role: CEO For the past few decades, fintech companies have launched many proprietary payment systems for digital payments, leading to competing standards that have left markets disconnected and bifurcated. Bitcoin is a new open monetary system, and the Lightning Network introduces instant cash-like digital finality....

Location: New York Date: Sunday 19th September Company: Griid Infrastructure Role: VP of Strategy Bitcoin mining requires energy expenditure as a fundamental pillar of the proof-of-work consensus mechanism. While bitcoin is considered energy-intensive by some, it is often misreported in the media, overlooking its importance and the positive benefits for humanity of having sound money. Similarly, w...

Location: New York Date: Friday 17th September Role: Programmer & Data Scientist Since the early 1970s, society has seen an explosion of progress in the digital world. As per Moore's law, we've seen increasing computing power at decreasing costs, but at the same time, there has been a stagnation of progress in physical sciences and related technologies. This stagnation has caused problems for inst...

Location: New York Date: Monday 13th September Role: Businessman & TV Personality Fundamental changes are emerging in the way capital is being allocated across many industries. Environmental policies are materialising not from lawmakers but from mandates that originate within companies and institutions. Trillions of dollars of institutional funds are beginning to see the potential of bitcoin in po...

Location: Remotely Date: Tuesday 7th September Project: Mauldin Economics Role: Analyst, Author In Ray Dalio's excellent video How The Economic Machine Works , he explains the concept of long-term debt cycles. This framework can shed light on where we have been economically, and where we might be going. With debt and spending soaring, and no sign of austerity, we may be approaching the conclusion...

Location: Remotely Date: Friday 3rd September Company: Euro Pacific Asset Management & Validus Power Corp Role: CEO and Chief Global Strategist & Bitcoin Strategist Gold has been used as money for thousands of years, but once the US severed all remaining ties with the Gold Standard in 1971 and moved to our current fiat system, gold's use case shifted. Gold has become a safe haven, store of value,...

Location: Remotely Date: Sunday 29th August Company: Blockstream Role: Co-Founder/CEO, CSO In 2017, thousands of ICOs flooded crypto markets. There was a lot of excitement around ICOs at the time, but they turned out to be largely scams and cash grabs, with most likely being illegal securities offerings. Blockstream is changing that by bringing to market regulated securities in tokenised form, and...

Location: Remotely Date: Tuesday 31st August Company: Swan Bitcoin Role: Co-founder & CTO It has been nearly 13 years since Satoshi released the Bitcoin whitepaper. In that time, Bitcoin has overcome significant hurdles, going from an experimental attempt at digital money to a trillion-dollar asset. Bitcoin is the hardest money the world has ever known. In the early days, bitcoiners were mostly cy...

Location: Remotely Date: Sunday August 29th Project: lynalden.com Role: Macroeconomist Bitcoin is still a relatively new technology with many adversaries and existential threats. And risk assessment is a crucial component of any sound investment strategy. While naysayers often cite long-refuted misunderstandings, not all threats are negligible. From regulatory action to protocol risk, there are ma...

Location: Dallas, TX Date: Thursday 26th August Company: The Stephan Livera Podcast and Swan International Role: Host and Managing Director Libertarian philosophy centres around non-aggression and defence of property rights as a foundation for organizing society. The idea that no one should take from others seems logical to most people, but it's often hard to imagine society absent of the state. E...

Location: Houston, TX Date: Thursday 25th August Company: Unchained Capital Role: Head of Business Development In times of economic crisis, central banks have the power to step in and attempt to aid recovery by 'printing' dollars. When injected into the commercial banking system, these new dollars prevent an economic slowdown. While this may sound like a favourable alternative to an economic slowd...

Location: Remotely Date: Thursday 26th August Company: Hypersheet Role: Co-Founder Bitcoin's price had been trending lower for most of the summer, but after bottoming out just below $30k, it went on a run-up to $50k. Despite the market moves, there have been plenty of other signals that indicate bitcoin might break its four-year cycle. On-chain metrics indicate that this recent upward trend might...

Location: Remotely Date: Wednesday 21st July Role: Author, Student Bitcoin can take a lot of time to understand, but the core foundations of sound money are relatively straightforward. For adults, learning about bitcoin often means unlearning the status quo. Understanding bitcoin challenges what we take for granted about the existing monetary system. While older generations may struggle with bitco...

Location: Remotely Date: Thursday 6th August Role: N/A, Angel Investor, Author & Entrepreneur Most Bitcoiners are staunch believers in the technology's potential to facilitate a more honest, fair and prosperous future. Bitcoin emerged from the unifying values of crypto-liberty, but as its appeal grows, so does the diversity of the beliefs surrounding it. It wouldn't be possible or beneficial for B...